I was reading the site of Paul Graham - he created what is
now Yahoo! stores - and he has some interesting things to
say. Firstly, that LISP is the way to go as far as
programming is concerned - and having started to read up
about it, well maybe he's right. I hate learning new
programming languages and especially since they say this
is a new way of thinking required (at 31 I may be too late
to change my ways?)

Secondly, he has a quote on his site (a paraphrase,
actually) of Peter Landin: "Most papers in computer
science describe how their author learned what someone
else already knew." Which has made me think seriously on
what I am trying to achieve by writing and documenting low-
level interface code.